Densely and dark the mists began to gather below, casting black spots of shadow on the vast landscape and sailing heavily to one centre, as if the loftiest mountain-peak had summoned a council of its kindred clouds.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The altar stands in the greater hippodrome, and is kept concealed except during the horse-races, when it is uncovered.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Clouds hid the moon, every thing was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat, as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

‘He always prints, I know, ‘cos he learnt writin’ from the large bills in the booking-offices.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

In 1905, a celebrated case was decided in Kansas City involving litigation between William E. Baker, of Baker & Co., Minneapolis, and the F.A. Duncombe Manufacturing Co., of St. Joseph, Mo., over Mr. Baker's patent rights in a machine to produce steel-cut coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Kuwandâ′taʻlûñ′yĭ (abbreviated Kuwandâ′taʻlûñ )—“Mulberry grove,” from ku′wă , mulberry; the Cherokee name for the present site of Knoxville, in Knox county, Tennessee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

ON INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER XII.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The Queen, sir, very oft importun'd me To temper poisons for her; still pretending The satisfaction of her knowledge only In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs, Of no esteem.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Creating a Coffee Trade Because of steady sales and quick profits, there is keener competition in retail coffee-merchandising than in other food products.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In short, the whole thing in its kind closely resembles the overgrown transparencies painted to be stuck up at Vauxhall, or the Cumberland Gardens, or for public rejoicings, and ought, as soon as it has answered its purpose like those, be obliterated, and the stuff worked up for something else.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

By dint of their exertions and those of the floundering and groaning horse, the vehicle, which was too deeply imbedded in the muddy ruts to dread an overturn, was dragged out by main force; the driver sometimes wringing his hands in King Cambysses' vein, and sometimes strenuously applying his shoulder to the wheel.
— from Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes

And I keep chickens—this is one of mine—poor little thing!"
— from The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories by Logan Pearsall Smith

"If kindness can help any, he will get sound and well," declared Ralph chivalrously.
— from Ralph of the Roundhouse; Or, Bound to Become a Railroad Man by Allen Chapman

"Oh, I know," cried Helen; "Grandmother joined when she was here ten years ago and Mother and Grandfather belong, too."
— from Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

If Kit Carson reproached his former “leader” it is not on record.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

I have seen the wildest fellows I know, cluster around him, and introduce the subject, for the pleasure of hearing him talk.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

Therefore, I keep cannily out of all discussion of Honor's voice.
— from Play the Game! by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

A question is asked, "Who kill'd Cock Robin?" and the following answer is given: "I says the Sparrow, With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin!!!"
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851 by Various

It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson